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Well, that was not the end of the trip, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has announced a $1 billion venture fund for blockchain and cryptocurrency startups. The initiative, named Social Impact Fund, was revealed by Ella Zhang, the head of the exchange’s incubator program Binance Labs. It is clear that Binance alone will contribute to the fund, and all investments will be made through Binance (BNB) token over 10 phases of $100 million each....

You can do this in several ways either by using the Telco app or using the web management interface. Note: This is a general guide and it is applicable to all MiFis. However, the examples here highlight networks in Nigeria. Using Apps to Check Your MiFi Data Balance Service providers (SP) have apps on PlayStore or Apple App Store and all you have to do is download them. So the best way to go about managing your data is to download the service provider’s app....

The site reports that a report by Ni Guangnan outlining the transition, won government approval and by 2020 the Chinese Government’s transition to Linux should be complete. This developments comes with no surprise at all considering that earlier this year the Chinese government officially banned Windows 8 from use on all government computers citing security concerns. The development came after the US and China accused each other of hacking and cyber-espionage....

Wired USB Computer Mouse: Optical versus Laser Mouse The wired USB optical mouse is still the more popular of the lot. Even this, though, comes in two categories: Laser and Optical. The technology behind both is so similar to make them indistinguishable. Of the two, the Laser mouse is the newer technology, but don’t be deceived. The Optical mouse is still just as good, if not better in some respects. Let’s get this straight: Optical and Laser mice are not restricted to just wired but also ship for wireless mice....

My goal was to figure out if Chromebooks have come of age enough to become my daily driver. I’ve got a review of the Galaxy Chromebook Go coming up but I thought I needed to share my experience and thoughts about the operating system that powers Chromebooks first. Chromebooks are a fairly new breed of laptops that run on Chrome OS, a heavily tweaked Linux-based operating system. At the center of the Chrome OS is as you would have guessed — the Google Chrome browser....

You cannot find a good software developer if you are not sure about what type of software products and services you need. By letting your idea make sense to you, it becomes easy to identify the kind of software you need, what it takes to get the software and who can develop it. Knowing what you want also comes in handy after you find a good developer because you give them proper instructions which save a lot of time during the development process....

The feature that will be rolling out soon within the mobile app according to Mark will help you make longterm relationships, not just hookups. Users can set up a dating profile with their first name, which the company said won’t be visible to friends and will not appear in News Feeds. The feature is opt-in and users will not be matched with people they are already friends with, according to Facebook....

The company has confirmed that it is placing autoplaying video ads in the Messenger chat app, and they will start running late June, with a regulation on targeted advertising starting July 2 where users have the choice to stop seeing certain ads. Messenger is among the most popular mobile social networking apps, and there have been visible static ads inside the app since early 2017, appearing as a pop up notice, though the increasing number of users could have pushed Facebook into the idea of video ads given they are the bigger money-makers for the company....

These platforms will continue being standalone apps, yet users won’t have the challenge of moving from one service to the other. This way, your Messenger-only friend can communicate with you in your Instagram DM. That’s some exciting stuff. The objective Mark Zuckerberg aims to achieve with this is to create the largest ecosystem of interactive users. Once this integration occurs, over 4 billion users can operate under the Facebook-WhatsApp-Instagram umbrella....

We caught up with the screening of the flicks from entrants in Kampala last Friday at an event organized by the highly vibrant Mozilla Uganda community. This comes barely a month after Mozilla released its first Firefox OS handset — the ZTE Open — that TechPost’s Daniel Mwesigwa thinks will become a one hit wonder in emerging markets like Africa. Here’s what African Film makers creatively think what will become of the Firefox OS phones....

One major problem though. Thanks to bureaucracy, copyright legislation, government policies, licensing issues, among other factors, Spotify is not available in many regions. Luckily, we live in a digital age and such regional restrictions can be overcome easily. So, you live in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, or any other region where Spotify isn’t officially supported? Well, here’s how to get into the whole music streaming world. Get a VPN Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are great for privacy and for encrypting your internet traffic....

Most of this was done with Google’s Street View Trekker, either carried by the team or mounted on a vehicle, they travelled through seven parks, including the stunning Queen Elizabeth National Park, which is home to 10 primate species, including chimpanzees, and more than 600 species of birds. You can view some of what they have done on web – It is amazing. According to the Google Blog, starting today, you can take virtual tours of some of the most iconic landmarks and monuments in Uganda, Ghana and Senegal....

The Project is resuming with Android O on which Google has been working closely with device makers and silicon manufacturers to deliver updates faster than before with a longer compatibility. When a new Android release is to reach an end user, it goes through a process. With developers working on applications that work across various hardware from different manufacturers, Google aims at providing a stable vendor interface that gives device makers access to the hardware-specific parts of Android, where they can choose to deliver a new Android release to consumers by just updating the Android OS framework without any additional work required from the silicon manufacturers....

Reports have it that Huawei Mobile Kenya is planning to unveil yet another mid-ranger, the Y6 2019 next week. Huawei Y6 2019 Specifications Network: 2G/3G/4GDimensions: 6.15 x 2.89 x 0.31 inchesWeight: 150 gramsBuild: Front glass, plastic bodySIM: Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)Screen: 6.09 inch IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, 91.0 cm2 (~79.2% screen-to-body ratio) with 720 x 1560 pixels resolution, 19.5:9 ratio (~282 ppi density)OS: Android 9.0 (Pie); EMUI 9Chipset: Mediatek MT6761 Helio A22CPU: Quad-core 2....

Liquid Telecom entered the Ugandan market after acquiring Infocom which was another fixed-line internet provider catering to small office and enterprise clients. They recently launched into the retail sector without much marketing and advertising but rather through word-of-mouth. I actually got to know that they had home internet all along when I inquired from one of the support engineers who was working on our office internet. When Covid-19 unleashed its fury constraining all of us to our homes and working remotely, internet wasn’t a luxury....

HDMI cable types Premium High Speed HDMI cable with Ethernet Premium High Speed HDMI cable High Speed HDMI cable with Ethernet High Speed HDMI cable Standard HDMI cable with Ethernet Standard HDMI cable Premium High Speed HDMI Cable and Premium High Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet transmit data at a maximum bandwidth of 18 Gbit/s, incorporating a newer HDMI 2.0 standard. Premium High Speed HDMI cables offer HDR and a much high frame rate of 60 Hz for 4K resolution....

For those that need paid subscription, the billing can either be managed by the streaming channel itself or by Roku. When you setup your Roku device or TV, Roku will ask you for your billing details typically a credit/debit card. This is what it uses to bill your monthly subscriptions. Subscriptions that are billed and managed by Roku will display in the ‘Subscriptions’ section of your Roku account settings....

The issue here is that the differences between a gaming desktop and a gaming laptop are quite obvious but each of them has its strengths. And the majority of gamers are only able to afford to buy one at a time. Others may be constrained by available space thence they go with a gaming laptop. To others, it is a matter of preference that they must have a massive RGB-lit tower next to their mechanical keyboard....

The social media giant was once caught exploiting certain app permissions in its Facebook mobile app to gather users call logs and SMS data. This is just another (of the many) data, privacy and security issues that Facebook has been caught in these past few years. But how does Facebook get these data? From the permission(s) you grant the app when you newly install its app. Imagine Facebook knowing people you call and send SMS messages to....

However, for the longest time, I was not able to Link my Spotify account with Google Home or Assistant. When I ask Google Assistant to play some smooth jazz or white noise or whatever, it would launch Youtube which isn’t a music app. That’s apparently because Spotify isn’t available in my country of residence. But that’s not true because Spotify recently launched in Uganda. Being unable to link Google Home to Spotify left me very frustrated until recently....